Re: Distribution & Redistribution

From: William C Colley (chriscoll_at_panola.com)
Date: 11/22/04 

Date: 22 Nov 2004 06:40:36 -0800

Greetings All,

"robert j. kolker" <nowhere@nowhere.net> wrote in message news:<30bp1pF2ubmjmU1@uni-berlin.de>...
> William C Colley wrote:
>
> > fade away. We'd better be interstellar long before then or we're all
> > just dust and ash again.
>
> It ain't going to happen. There is no practical way to travel near light
> speed, let alone greater than light speed. We are doomed to extinction.
> And even if we could travel at light speed, the universe is going to
> cool of and die anyway. In either case we are doomed. It is simply a
> matter of sooner or later.
>

Entropy does seem to be the eventual determinant in the long-term
outcome of the universe, but I'm not convinced that we know enough to
rule out alternative, more exotic scenarios than an always-increasing
rate of expansion and eventual eternal darkness.

>
> The clock is ticking. My bet is we will not make to to five million
> years from present time, let alone five billion. If we do not kill
> ourselves off a large asteroid will do it for us.
>

At this point 5 million years sounds pretty good for the species. I'd
settle for that much myself if I could be comfortable and autonomous
and free to explore. Why I could actually witness some real geological
goings on if I could last 5 million years.

William C Colley

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